You are correct. People are ignorant and will accept what CBS tells them. This is the danger of the MSM, or anyone who lies with a big enough audience. Will the other MSM outlets now report verbatim what CBS says.

Of course, CBS may well be preparing the way for the Hillary/Bill accession to the throne. What other reason could they have for throwing Bush a bone.

According to the advance publicity...one of the "heroes" of the upcoming 60 Minutes piece is ex-CIA operative Tyler Drumheller. Why does that sound familiar? Because once before he said stuff on the same CBS program...which turned out to be completely wrong. See Reuter story below:

September 16, 2006

Senate probes clash over CIA reports on Iraq arms
By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel has begun an inquiry to determine what a top official in Saddam Hussein's government told the CIA about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in late 2002 as the Bush administration made its case for war.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said in a Sept. 8 report that it launched the investigation after the CIA's former chief of European clandestine operations appeared on the CBS' "60 Minutes" news magazine in April. The official, Tyler Drumheller, told CBS that the Iraqi government source had said Iraq had no active unconventional weapons program.

Drumheller's disclosure contradicted spy agency documents quoting the same Iraqi source as saying Saddam did have such programs, according to an addendum to the Senate report written by three Republican senators including chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas....

But in the Senate report, which compares prewar Iraq intelligence with postwar findings, the Republican senators said a CIA operations cable and an intelligence report to high-level policymakers both contradict Drumheller.

see page 147 of report:

http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf

"# 2 Or else they think the readers are so ignorant and stupid they'll never realize CBS just pulled a fast one."

CBS, along with the majority of the MSM will continue to ATTEMPT to re-write history, (as they see fit), as long as they are not challenged. And they do rely on a portion of "stupidity" the drones absorb as "truth".

Drumheller, as Beresford pointed out above might as well be another Bill Burkett crony. Look for the fabrications to rachet up in the months to come. It will be surely fortunate to have people like Dafydd to expose the fabricators.

And I sez to myself, sez I, that either:

1. CBS is so behind the times, they're literally unaware that the Iraq Study Group formally reported that Iraq was indeed on a "quest for uranium for nuclear weapons," and that one source of this datum was none other than Ambassador Joe himself;

2. Or else they think the readers are so ignorant and stupid they'll never realize CBS just pulled a fast one.

Sadly, it is probably the scariest of the two... the first possibility. This is in evidence in the MSM and in the Democratic Party. They aren't ALL trying to lie to the world, some of them haven't done any thinking on the subject, and rely on what they are told by the Party. Knowing that information brought down to them from On High has no need to be questioned (and in the backs of their minds they remember those who have... and never speak of them aloud) they go forth with that information as the useful Truthiness of Life.

Case in Point: Joe Biden.

When asked in an impromptu situation to describe how the War in Iraq started, he explained what he knows:

"Osama bin Laden set up camps there, and he was getting a lot of help from folks running that country called Afghanistan. And that's where he planned an attack on America to bring the World Trade Towers down and kill all those innocent Americans. We had a right to, and we should've gone, to Afghanistan to try to get bin Laden and those people who've done very bad things to America," he said.

Shame we never did anything about Afghanistan and the Taliban, huh Senator?

"But the president, I think, he got a little confused," he continued. "I think he thought the folks in another country, way, way far away, far from here, it's also far from Afghanistan, called Iraq. He said, 'The guy in Iraq he helped bin Laden do bad things to us,' and he didn't. He wasn't a good guy, but he didn't help. So we used that kind of as an excuse to attack Iraq."

This is what Joe Biden has been told... and what he believes. He is not alone.

You cannot know how much I would LOVE to have the elected Democrats polled on their recent History. What do they know, and how did they learn it...

...and for our Nation's safety, we should Poll the Republicans on the same subject. "POP HISTORY TEST ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE! BRING YOUR #2 PENCILS AND NO SHARING ANSWERS OR YOU LOSE HALF OF YOUR CAMPAIGN FUNDS!!!"

Dafydd

You are too kind to CBS. They, like the rest of the old media, have been dedicated to misdirection since the election in 2000 and they have not given up. How else did they bring down the numbers of a popular president? By unceasing and repetitive rhetoric and lies. And don't forget 25 years ago they not only brought down the numbers of another popular president but also his presidency. All their reporting on impeachment was directed at this. This is their goal with every republican president and we will see it again and again.

Dafydd

You are too kind to CBS. They, like the rest of the old media, have been dedicated to misdirection since the election in 2000 and they have not given up. How else did they bring down the numbers of a popular president? By unceasing and repetitive rhetoric and lies. And don't forget 25 years ago they not only brought down the numbers of another popular president but also his presidency. All their reporting on impeachment was directed at this. This is their goal with every republican president and we will see it again and again.

Sorry for the double entries.

Slow Joe sounds like a grade school drop out. His grasp of foreign policy and the war in Iraq is a joke. I wonder about congress. They surely must have the highest rate of stupidity than any other organization on the planet.

Well,
It would not be the first time CBS has faked the news, would it?

You had a very good summary of all the WMD and related stuff found in Iraq some time ago. Some of that data should be applicable here. Also, I seem to remember that the US took about 4 tons or uranium ore out of Iraq about a year ago, so obviously Iraq was interested in doing something with that uranium ore. When did you do that post?

Dave55:

I'm not sure exactly which post you're talking about. But in the sidebar on the right, you can find two different search engines -- one under the label "Sniff Out," the other under "Technorati Slither Search." (I'm not sure of the difference; maybe you can figure it out?)

You can use these search engines to hunt through Big Lizards to try to find the post: type in keywords or phrases that are relatively unique and see if you can locate it.

When you do, please post again with the link!

Thanks,

Dafydd

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